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Grateful Dead Live at San Jose Civic Auditorium on 1972-08-20

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1972-08-20 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Olaf Schiappacasse, David Minches, Gene Taback

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

disc 1:

Set 1:
Bertha
Me & My Uncle
Sugaree
Beat It On Down The Line
Bird Song
Jack Straw
Friend Of The Devil
Black Throated Wind
Cumberland Blues
El Paso
Loser
Playin' In The Band

disc 2:

Set 2:
Promised Land
Brown Eyed Women
Me And Bobby McGee
He\'s Gone

disc 3:

Tuning
Truckin'->
Drums->
The Other One->
Stella Blue
Sugar Magnolia
Casey Jones->
One More Saturday Night
E: Uncle John's Band

Notes

The sound of the recording varies from section to section. Fortunately the best sounding parts include the longer jams.

Many of the sounds are missing the first couple of notes due to the fact that Olaf paused in between most songs. There are many other warts - too many to document.

I decided to using some post-transfer processing since the recording's level were very low and there was a pretty good amount of tape noise/hiss. As you'll hear, I still left a good bit on the finished product.

Be patient with the recording since the sound improves quite a bit as the show progresses.

Thanks, Gene, for providing me with your cassettes.

Addeddate: 2008-01-21 15:20:29

Identifier: gd1972-08-20.sony-schiappacasse.minches.82716.flac16

Lineage: Master cassettes played back on Nakamichi Dragon > Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe soundcard (96Mhz/24 bit)> HD > Adobe Audition; L3 Multimaximizer>Waves Z-Noise; Dithered and downsampled to 44.1 MHz / 16 bit; Flac Encoded

Location: San Jose, CA

Source: Sony TC-124 with Sony Stereo Mic (Pacific Stereo Cassettes)

Taped by: Olaf Schiappacasse (using Gene Taback's equipment)

Transferred by: David Minches

Type: sound

Venue: San Jose Civic Auditorium

Year: 1972

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Reviewer: gphishmon - - April 19, 2008
Subject: A completist's tape

The sound here is not great, and David's right that it gets better as it goes along. Bertha is nearly unlistenable, but the rest goes down OK, though slightly muddy, and noticeably speedy (a half-step high). There's a weird noise and a cut at the end of Truckin - maybe some of the jamming got cut off. The Other One alone is still worth the download (although the ravenous Tiger doesn't quite come through) unless the soundboards suddenly become available again. Just start your download from Bird Song and put all of Disk 2 with Disk 1.

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